Don't know if this is the right forum but it is kind of a game so I'll stick it here. Saw one of these on social media for the MCU heroes and thought it would be fun to whip one together for the X-Men real quick. Let me know your answer!

Hmm… all the X-Men having metal-based powers or using metallic equipment are useless against Magneto, so that takes Logan, Colossus, Cable, Forge, Cyclops (visor) and Archangel off the table.

I'd send a team of six:
- Polaris (to counter Magneto, at least for a while)
- Nightcrawler, to surprise-attack Acolytes
- Rogue, to steal powers from opponents they can't defeat with their own powers
- Dazzler, an energy-wielder is always useful
- Banshee, so either he and Dazzler alternate trying to disorient the Acolytes with sonics and blinding light, or Sean uses his sonics to power up Dazzler
- Longshot, cause they might need a little luck (and Jubilee as the only other 1$ character would be redundant with Dazzler already in the mix)

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Think Sean and Bobby can lead the all-out assault, Betsy and Kurt take a stealth approach to take the bigger hitters down, while Rachel runs TP co-ordination, and takes down Mags once Kurt steals his helmet.

Actually, this game would be more fun if wasn't about a team going up against Magneto and the Acolytes but instead the mission from HoX #3-4, as the consensus was that the line-up actually chosen in the issues was less than ideal.

Actually, this game would be more fun if wasn't about a team going up against Magneto and the Acolytes but instead the mission from HoX #3-4, as the consensus was that the line-up actually chosen in the issues was less than ideal.

You can play it that way, but then people are going to tend to want to include any of the 10,000 X-Men. I only had space for 25 lol

Actually, this game would be more fun if wasn't about a team going up against Magneto and the Acolytes but instead the mission from HoX #3-4, as the consensus was that the line-up actually chosen in the issues was less than ideal.

You can play it that way, but then people are going to tend to want to include any of the 10,000 X-Men. I only had space for 25 lol

Well I think what Laveytte is saying is that particular mission wouldn't eliminate the metal-clad characters (which I am a bad commander I picked Colossus on my team without thinking about it, which is REALLY dumb because I did consider it for Wolverine). The list is the list, I don't think anyone wants to add more potential characters.

This is actually an interesting game you came up with. Have you got other varieties to or is this the first game of this type?

I must admit it is very difficult for me, there is quite a handful of characters that would be to risky for a fight against Magneto, on the other hand, not every character is on my sympathy list.

Maybe I would choose:

Storm for a mass wide range energy attack
Emma Frost for a psychic assault
Iceman who can freeze everything and is virtually immortal
Havok who has unlimited cosmic energy to use in space for devastating energy attacks
Longshot as a wildcard

If Mags loses his helmet he's as susceptible to telepathy as anyone else, but I'd feel better sending the considerably more durable Emma than the other psychics into the field with such a limited budget. The sheer versatility of Bobby's power set makes him a bargain at $3, and he could probably do a lot more with it with Emma on hand to help him out. And to shore up that combination or any other, Rogue is on hand to act both as a safe redundancy in the system and bring in what she can take from the Acolytes. Aside from the Acolytes, Asteroid M has technological defenses—enter Kitty Pryde. That leaves $1 for a wildcard, and that's practically Longshot's middle name.

(Alternatively, I could trade Emma down for Betsy and then trade Longshot up for Gambit… but I like this iteration of the team better, partly for Emma's durability, and partly because I don't especially care for Gambit.)

Do we get "I don't have my powers this week" Cable or "Nate Who? I fought the Silver Surfer" Cable? One is replacing the Declaration of Independence with a gift shop prop for $3 and the other is finding the Declaration of Independence in a thrift shop for $3.

"Sometimes I do feel like I'm a failure. Like there's no hope for me. But even so, I'm not gonna give up. Ever!" -Izuku Midoriya

Do we get "I don't have my powers this week" Cable or "Nate Who? I fought the Silver Surfer" Cable? One is replacing the Declaration of Independence with a gift shop prop for $3 and the other is finding the Declaration of Independence in a thrift shop for $3.

Wait, Cable has powers? I thought he just had a metal arm, bionic eye, and lots of big guns and pouches.

Jk, but not really. I remember he has some TK from all the way back at the beginning, and I guess maybe someone gave him TP at some point. But his powers always seemed vague and not particularly suited to the character.

People seem to be concentrating on Magneto and avoiding metal people, but there's a whole bunch of Acolytes that Wolverine/ Colossus could deal with while rest of the team takes on Magneto. Though that being said I have not picked either of those for my team :p
I've tried for versatile team, some powerhouses, telepathy, ninja & hacker skills

This is actually an interesting game you came up with. Have you got other varieties to or is this the first game of this type?

There are several variations of it circulating Facebook about the Avengers movies and assembling a team to defeat Thanos. I just copied the idea for X-Men with all image credit of course to the team here at UXN.